Writer, conservationist, collector and founder of Irish Arts Review, Brian de Breffny was a remarkable champion of Ireland’s cultural heritage. Ann Reihill remembers the man behind the journal and the extraordinary restoration of Castletown Cox
Writer, novelist, man-about-town, conservationist. How best to describe Brian de Breffny who founded this journal with Ann Reihill in 1984? He was so many things and had so many skills that recalling them now is no easy task.
Brian and his wife, Ulli, brought their charm, intelligence, generosity, and tenacity to bear upon everything and everybody they encountered.
The National Library of Ireland recently acquired an album of thirty-six watercolours and prints made by James Cavanah Murphy in Portugal between 1789 and 1790. Michael McCarthy recalls the career and travels of this unusual draughtsman
The Smurfit Art Collection spans three continents and contains some of the best 20th-century Irish art. Ciaran MacGonical reviews a new catalogue of the collection